Irish in Leicester

0: Sacred Heart Church Hall

1: 33 Medway St.

Mary and Paul Considine first lived on Medway St. and rented the ground floor of a terraced house for £3 a week.Click here for more pictures of Medway St.

2: Fomerly Upper Conduit St

3: 42 Evington Rd

Mary and Paul Considine moved here from St. Stephen's Rd. It was a 3 storey house that was damp with no back garden.

4: St. Saviour's Rd

5: Formerly The Hillcrest Hospital

George Corry worked here as a ward orderly.

6: Gopsall St

George Corry had a room in a terrace house. here for a couple of weeks.

7: 22 Gotham St

George Corry moved from Gopsall St. to a room in 22 Gotham St which cost him 7/6d a week. He got all his food at work and worked 7-5. Click here for more pictures of Gotham St.

8: Tennyson St.

9: 444 East Park Rd

10: 5 St. Saviour's Rd.

11: Wesley Hall

12: 37 Myrtle Rd

13: John Bull (Dunlop)

14: Jermyn St

15: 37 Mere Road

16: 2 Evington Street

17: 1 Evington Street

18: 92 Sparkenhoe St

19: Saxby St

20: 131 Mere Rd

21: 32 Berners St

22: Duxbury Rd

23: General Hospital

24: Barclay St

25: Skipworth St.

26: Brazil St

27: Holbrooke Rd

28: Craighill Rd

29: Hartington Rd

30: St Saviours Rd

31: The Trade Hall, St James St.

32: St Peter's Hall, King Richard's Rd

33: The Corn Exchange

34: Saffron Rd

John Myers came over in 1958 lived here.

35: College St

Eva Mclean and her husband lived here

36: Swain St bridge

37: 71 Conduit St

38: 99 Averill Rd

39: Windermere St

40: 14 Gotham St

41: 4 Hobart St

42: Sacred Heart Church

43: St. Patrick's Club, Abbey St.

44: The Jolly Miller, Conduit St.

45: Formerly Upper Kent St

46: Melton Mowbray

47: 14 Cecilia Rd

48: Tudor Rd

49: Formerly Gresham St

Chris and Annie Nestor lived here.

50: Hampshire's Cafe, Market St

51: Avon St

52: 5 ways

53: General Hospital

Shelia Sullivan
Elsie Byrne

54: St Saviour's Rd

Mary Stenbarski  lived here with her husband and son.

55: 297 East Park Rd

Michael Kennedy lived in a flat here.

56: Tennis Court Drive

Michael and Elsie Kennedy lived here.

57: 78 Mere Rd

Daniel Sweeney lodged here when he first came over from Donegal.

58: 8 Hartington Rd

Daniel Sweeney and his wife Mary lived here.

59: 55 St Peters Rd

John Walker moved here after Evans St and had a room of his own.

60: 55 St Peters Rd,

John Walker lived here and had a room of his own.

61: 43 St Peters Rd

John Walker lived in a furnished room here with 2 other men.

62: 46 St Peter's Rd

John Walker moved over the road to get away from the fellas he was living with at no. 43.

63: 8 Tichbourne St

John Walker lived here and had a room of his own.

64: 8 St Stephens Rd

John Walker bought this house with his wife Mary Josephine MacDonagh.

65: Formerly Porter St

Greta and Tommy Holt lived at No. 6.
Click here for more pictures of Porter St.

66: Saxby St.

67: 19 Upper Tichbourne St

Noreen (nee O'Neill) and her friend Kathleen moved here: they had two rooms and a kitchen.

68: Brookehouse St.

Noreen  ONeill ( later Jones) moved hereto a ground floor flat on Brookehouse St.when her friend left their previous flat on Upper Tichbourne to get married.

69: Laurel Rd

Deidre and Bobby Wrafter lived here.

70: 66 Haddon Street

Deidre and Bobby Wrafter lived here.This was their first mortgage and Deidre’s mother gave them the £50 deposit for the house which cost them £900 to buy. Click here for more pictures of Haddon St.

71: Walton Street

72: St Peter's Rd

Nora Barry had a room here.

73: New Walk

Nora Barry had a a room here.

74: Oxendon St

75: Clyde St

Sam Raddie lived here.

76: Formerly Clipston St

Sam Raddie lived here with his wife Anne (nee Bambrick).

77: Eastleigh Rd

George and Sorca Corry lived here.

78: Latimer Rd

George and Sorca Corry lived here.

79: Bardolphe St

Jim Stretton came over in 1967 with his wife Catherine ( nee McCarthy) and had a house here.

80: 8 Dore Rd

Joe Cusack married Lily Grimes and they bought this house for £1,600.Click here for more pictures of Dore Rd.

81: 45 St Stephens rd ,

After St. Saviour's Rd, Mary and Paul Considine rented this 3 storey house from Woods the builders, £3 a week.

82: 42 Evington Road,

Mary and Paul Considine lived in this 3 storey house: is was damp with no back garden.

83: 168 Homefield Rd, Sileby.

Mary and Geoff Warrener bought this 3 bedroom semi-detached house in August 1965. It cost them £2,400 and Mary’s father, working for the Co-op in Harrow, gave them a second hand bed.Click here for more pictures of Homefield Rd.

84: 32 Berners St

Paddy and Sarah Callaghan lived here. Their first child, Lynda, was born at Bond St hospital while they were here.

85: 37 Severn Street

Bobby and Deidre Wrafter lived on the top floor of this 3 story house.For more photos of Severn St click here.  

86: 68 Melbourne Rd

87: Spinney Hill Park

Mary Considine remembers her son got out of the backyard at St. Saviour's Rd while she was doing the washing. He was 3 or 4 yrs. old.She looked everywhere for him before a policeman brough him home in his arms...he'd been on the park!

88: 127 East Park Rd.

Josie and Tom Silk lived in rooms here when they were first married. Josie remembers the landlord nagging them about not using too much electricity.

89: 6 Lincoln St

90: Prospect Hill

91: 47 West St

Mary Stembaski

92: Holy Cross Church

Eamon Morton married  Patricia Bradley here in 1958.
Sam Raddie married Ann Bambrick from Kildare in 1956.
Noreen O'Neil married Roy Jones, Feb 3 1951. Roy was baptised here, 1950.

93: Minehead Street

94: Minehead St

95: 6 Lincoln St

96: 135 Sherrard Road

Thomas Flannery, known as Paul, and Gerardine Mary Flannery, moved from Castlebar Co. Mayo to Leicester, 135 Sherrard Road in 1959.

97: 38 Runcorn Rd, Eyres Monsell

98: Saxby St

Jimmy Tyrell and his wife, Mavis (Munn) had their daughter Debby here.

99: 10 Kent St

Jimmy Tyrell and his wife Mavis lived here from 1961/62 to 1964.

100: 26 Kelso Green.

Jimmy and Mavis Tyrell moved back up to Eyres Monsell in 1964.

101: 52 Mere Rd

102: 54 Mere Rd

103: 33 Lincoln St

104: Formerly 88 Upper Conduit St

Brien Moran was born here. He remembers the Callaghans at 104.

105: The "Bird Cage"

106: The "Rally Banks"

107: 35 Kimberley Rd

Josie and Tom Silk moved here from 127 East Park Rd.Click here for more pictures of Kimberley Rd.

108: 74 Dronfield St

109: Victoria Park

Many people used the park as respite from the working week and a place to let their children get some sun and fresh air. For more photos of Victoria Park click here.

110: Brookhouse St

Noreen Jones ( nee O'Neill) moved into a ground floor flat on Brookhouse St. when her friend Kathleem moved out of the flat they were sharing at 19 Upper Tichbourne St.

111: 12 Tichbourne St

Patricia Morton (nee Bradley) came from Co. Derry, N. Ireland. She came to Leicester with her friend, Peggy Brady in May 1956. Her brother was already here at 12 Tichbourne St where he had a flat and he got the girls a room there too

112: Formerly Upper Kent St

Etta Grady lived at 49 Upper Kent St. Her uncle used to work at St. Pat’s club, Abbey St and so she used to spend a lot of time there and had a great time.

113: 25 Bardolphe St